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The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

ISLAMABAD =E2=80=94 An employee at Pakistan's state-run Islamic advisory
body has been detained for allegedly playing an important role in
assisting the failed New York Times Square car bomber, an intelligence
officer said Thursday.

The suspect accompanied Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistan-American bomber, to
Pakistan's northwest to meet militant leaders, said the officer, who spoke
on condition of anonymity because the intelligence agency does not permit
its operatives to be named in the media.

The suspect, identified as Faisal Abbasi, was with Shahzad throughout his
time in Pakistan, the officer said.

He said Abbasi worked for the government's Council of Islamic Ideology,
which advises on Islamic affairs.

The secretary general of the council confirmed Abbasi had worked there but
had been on "vacation" for the last three months.

Pakistan has already charged three men with assisting Shahzad while in
Pakistan and sending him money in America.

Shahzad is due to be sentenced in the United States on Oct. 5. He has
pleaded guilty to the May 1 failed bombing.